A review by jvillanueva8
Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power by Jennifer Worley

4.0

This book does a great job at stripping (ha) away the sensationalism of sex work and telling a story that is about labor, power, and the deconstruction of power imbalances. Worley also doesn’t play with arbitrary demarcations of what’s sex-positive feminism - she teases apart the intricacies of the worker-customer relationship with surprising objectivity. That being said, I feel like she leans on tropes of exceptionalism for humanizing sex workers - we mostly hear about those with graduate degrees, and she spends little time discussing any of her colleagues who may have less privilege (with the exception of a bit on the club’s racial discrimination). I am also curious if Worley’s colleagues would give her as much credit as she gives herself.